Spurs in the Europa League: Road to Gdańsk

[Lumiere]

After all this excitement about winning the Europa League, we'll get knocked out by Motherwell in the qualifying round.

 

[John48]

After all this excitement about winning the Europa League, we'll get knocked out by Motherwell in the qualifying round.

Might not have to play qualifying round if Chelski win the FA Cup.

 

[riggi]

Final in a 41k seater stadium is abit shit....

 

[worcestersauce]

To get to Gdansk we will need to really pull together. We'll need Solidarity!

 

[alexis]

To get to Gdansk we will need to really pull together. We'll need Solidarity!

?????

 

[Gassin's finest]

Lol, we'll be going out in the round of 32 to PAOK ffs.

 

[mil1lion]

After all this excitement about winning the Europa League, we'll get knocked out by Motherwell in the qualifying round.

I remember the CL scare at Young Boys

 

[tevezito]

Don't discount the possibility of fat fingers. It's either that or rank stupidity but i'd be inclined to call fat fingers because i'm a nice guy. Well hung and nice.

Very impressed that your fat fingers can type well hung out without you realising!

 

[DaleMurphy]

let’s win the fucking thing

 

[SpursD22]

Don’t expect Mourinho to play youth players because he won’t, not even in the group stage

When United won it only Fosu-Mensah played and he only started one game. Lucas himself said the club will priorities winning a cup over top 4 so I’m sure Jose will play first team members even in the group stage

 

[midoNdefoe]

Chelsea win = No Europa for Arsenal.

Good or Bad ? Financially a hit but clears they way with less to concentrate on ?

I’d like Arsenal not to qualify and still do badly in the league. That’d be lovely

 

[Athenspur]

If Olympiakos make the Europa league final of this year, it will be a 437-day season for them. I feel exhausted just thinking about it.

 

[SpursD22]

Some clubs I see as potential threats:

Villarreal:
Spanish teams always do well in Europe especially Europa League, Villarreal are a very decent team and their new manager is Emery who is a Europa League specialist

Real Sociedad:
Fell apart at the end of the season after a very good start. Ødegaard who is a top player could stay one more season, Isak & Oyarzabal will be even better. Also a Spanish club and I fear them in this competition

Leicester:
Don’t know how serious they will take it but they have a good young team who will keep on improving

Wolves:
Strong team who takes this competition seriously. Seems to get better for every year and are good against top teams

Napoli:
Become a very solid team under Gattuso, Koulibaly likely to stay and they will sign Osimhen. Looks like they will lose Allan, will be interesting to see who replaces him

Milan:
Have become a complete different team since Zlatan came back with his winning mentality. Kessie & Bennacer are beasts in midfield

There are other decent/good teams and teams who finished third in the CL group stage will go to the knockout stages but these teams are the real threats so far imo

 

[worcestersauce]

We'll start the Europa League for the first time as a Champions League quality club, our previous sojourns were when Europa was our level.
Mourinho will believe this and he will make sure the players get it and he'll really challenge them to win it.

 

[fridgemagnet]

Every time i see this thread my brain reads the title as "Spurs in the Europa League: Road to Godsmack"

I'm off for an ice cream.

 

[whitesocks]

So why is our coefficient so low we have to play 3 pre-qualifiers to show we are worthy of this 2nd rate competition?
We have been pretty OK in europe for quite a few years now, so it makes me wonder how many pre-qualifiers Sheffield utd would have had to play if they qualified instead. 20?

 

[Saoirse]

So why is our coefficient so low we have to play 3 pre-qualifiers to show we are worthy of this 2nd rate competition?
We have been pretty OK in europe for quite a few years now, so it makes me wonder how many pre-qualifiers Sheffield utd would have had to play if they qualified instead. 20?

Coefficient doesn't effect what round you enter, just the seedings. We'll potentially have to play qualifying because we'd be taken the last English slot (Arsenal would take first priority as cup winners, then Leicester as 5th place, and finally us as 6th getting a place by virtue of Man City winning the League Cup while also being in a European spot in the league).

 

[soflapaul]

Qualifying could actually be a good thing as long as the competition is relatively weak. with the shortened preseason, it would be a heavy duty training match and every opportunity Jose has to instill his strategy brings us that much closer to the end product. that being said, i hope he would play a mixture of players

 

[isaac94]

Some clubs I see as potential threats:

Villarreal:
Spanish teams always do well in Europe especially Europa League, Villarreal are a very decent team and their new manager is Emery who is a Europa League specialist

Real Sociedad:
Fell apart at the end of the season after a very good start. Ødegaard who is a top player could stay one more season, Isak & Oyarzabal will be even better. Also a Spanish club and I fear them in this competition

Leicester:
Don’t know how serious they will take it but they have a good young team who will keep on improving

Wolves:
Strong team who takes this competition seriously. Seems to get better for every year and are good against top teams

Napoli:
Become a very solid team under Gattuso, Koulibaly likely to stay and they will sign Osimhen. Looks like they will lose Allan, will be interesting to see who replaces him

Milan:
Have become a complete different team since Zlatan came back with his winning mentality. Kessie & Bennacer are beasts in midfield

There are other decent/good teams and teams who finished third in the CL group stage will go to the knockout stages but these teams are the real threats so far imo

Bayer Leverkusen and Roma (crazy to think they made the champions league semi-final 2 seasons ago) also decent teams, and you know Soldado with Grenada could come back to haunt us, or Vieria with Nice.
Will be some good Champions league teams from qualifying rounds dropping off and also teams finishing 3rd in the champions league group.

Then you got the big clubs, that despite not in there prime will always feel like proper European games, i.e PSV, Sporting Lisbon, Rangers, Feyenoord, Wolfsburg, Copenhagen etc

 

[glacierSpurs]

Wolves have mandatory qualifiers to play right? Ours are not determined until the FA Cup final is over.

I hope Wolves don't make it past the qualifiers. ?